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“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
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Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alyssa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,307 books
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1,621 friends
10,469 books
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4,196 friends
1,298 books
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50 friends
1,388 books
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43 friends
582 books
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44 friends
184 books
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31 friends
4,067 books
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575 friends
15,650 books
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4,893 friends
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